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Founded in 2009, CouponsToTroops was created to help spread awareness that US military families who are stationed overseas can use coupons, up to 6 months past their expiration date.

The inspiration for our website came from a letter that appeared in Dear Abby’s advice column in February 2009. A reader had written in, saying that she had just begun couponing but every week there were so many more than her family could use so she was wondering what she could do with the extra coupons. Lesley, a moderator at HotCouponWorld.com , and the chairperson for her husband’s Marine Corps League’s overseas coupon project wasted no time in sending a letter of her own to Dear Abby, mentioning the 6 month expired policy on overseas bases. Imagine her glee when she received a phone call from Dear Abby’s people letting her know that her letter would be published in the column in early June. One phone call later, this time to Heidi and Julie, owners of HotCouponWorld and each a military spouse as well, and CouponsToTroops was born. Our website went live just days before the Dear Abby column was published in papers all over the country. Even though Lesley’s letter didn’t specifically mention CouponsToTroops by name, it didn’t take long at all for people to find our website and contact us, hoping that we could give them an address of an overseas family to mail their coupons directly to.

Based on the response those first few days, the focus of our site shifted slightly. In addition to spreading the word about the coupons being able to be used for 6 months past their expiration date, we began putting families and organizations here in the US in touch with families stationed overseas. Fast forward to the present and our list of overseas families continues to grow on a daily basis, and we’re proud that we’ve been able to provide such an easy way for Americans to show their support to all of the overseas military families in the CouponsToTroops database.

Whether you have extra and expired coupons to send or whether you are stationed overseas and interested in being on the receiving end, having coupons delivered right to your mailbox, we invite you to be a part of CouponsToTroops!

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CouponsToToops has truly exceeded my expectations! Each week our commissary and BX shopping trips yield tremendous savings due to the coupons sent our way. On average we’re saving $100 per month! This is a real blessing, especially when we have visitors in our home (while we are stationed overseas, our house is bustling with visitors [...]

—Andrea F

Our grocery bill would be devastating if it wasn’t for the coupons we receive from people back in the states. Thanks for doing all of this for us.

—Sarah L

Thanks to CouponsToTroops, I regularly save 30% or more on my grocery bill! Living overseas can be expensive, but thanks to CTT, my grocery bill is not something I have to worry about! I appreciate all the work you do to save our military families’ money!

—Meggan M

I love CTT. I joined not long after we PCS’ed to Germany in 2011 and within two weeks I was matched up with a stateside family willing to send me their unwanted and expired coupons. It takes a lot of work and dedication on Lesley’s part to not only answer all the emails but to also do all [...]

—Angela T

CouponsToTroops is such a great program. Living overseas it is difficult to live on US dollars in an economy that is nearly twice that. Having coupons sent regularly makes such a huge difference in our quality of life! Lesley is great, and was very prompt at matching me up to receive coupons. I can’t wait [...]

—Colleen F

Thank you Lesley for setting me up with wonderful families who send me coupons. Not only do they send me coupons, but they mail little toys/snacks/clothes for my daughter, too! I feel like my senders are just an extra branch of my extended family even though they are my “friendly strangers”. I love this program [...]

—Jennifer N.

CouponsToTroops has given my family an opportunity to save more money by using coupons. Being stationed overseas, we can use coupons past the expiration date printed on the coupon up to 6 months. This helps my family save money since we are a single income family. CouponsToTroops is the best page on facebook to sign [...]

—Nicole A.

I love being able to support our troops by sending them my expired coupons. Lesley, is great and so polite. I really like the fact that my coupons are not shipped to some random person and then mass mailed whenever they get to them, like some other programs do, but that I am matched up [...]